Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 What's Wingstedt up to?Here's a short (and rough) translation of part of an article from the Halden newspaper about Emil Wingstedt.Halden's Swedish national team runner, with several international titles, thinks he can be an even better orienteer. He'd especially like to win the long or middle distance at an international championship. He hasn't done that before. "I've won sprints and relays; this year I want to go for the longer distances," he said. In his efforts to make all of the small improvements he has gone further than just physical and O' technique training. He has been involved in a project to train his eyes. Tests have show improvments. "A group of us from Halden SK went through an introduction to the concept of 'train your eyes' at an optomitrist in town a couple of years ago. I stuck with it and the last year I've been doing the training. I think it will help me. In any case, the test results show that," said Wingstedt. The eye training is interesting. A couple of years ago I did a bit of eye training. Basically, I did an exercise that forced me to quickly shift focus from near to far and back again. I stuck with it long enough to get much better at the exercise. But I lost interest before I noticed any "in the field" results. Mario's Big 3 Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:13 PM 
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Yeah ok, OK, it was a great shot and a great game, deserving of a toast from DVOA land. Heck, we've (Philly) shared two of your legends, Larry Brown and Wilt, but then again, who hasn't. Both of them have quite long lists.
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